Train-pipe terminal for car-heating systems.



No. 758,269. PATENTED APR. 26,- 1904.

J. F. MGELROY. Y TRAIN PIPE TERMINAL .FOR GAR HEATING SYSTEMS.

APPLIoATioN FILED man, 1904.

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J. I'. MGRLROY. TRAIN PIPE TERMINAL POR GAR HEATING SYSTEMS.

APPLIOATIOH FILED FEB. 4, 1904.

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nEEEEE JAMES F. MCELROY, OF

OAR HEATING COMPANY, OF ALBANY,

OF WEST VIRGINIA.

Patented April 26, 1904.

PATENT OFFICE.

TRAIN-PIPE TERMINAL FOR CAF-HEATING SYSTEMS.

' SPECIFICATION forming''V art of LettersPatei-it No. 758,269, dated April 26, 1904.

Application iled February 1, 1904. Serial No. 191,934. (No model.)

To all whom, it r11/ay concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES F. MCELROY, a

citizen of the United States, residing at Al-V bany, county of Albany, and State of New York, have invented a certain new'and useful Improvement in Train-Pipe Terminals for Car-Heating Systems, of which the following specification and accompanying drawings disclose as anillustration one embodiment thereof which I now regard asy the best out of the various forms in which the principles of the invention may be applied.

In the drawings, Figure l is a plan, and ]3`ig.vv

2 is a side elevation, of my device; and Fig. 3 1s a section through the terminal.

The particular object of my invention is to provide a train-pipe terminal containing an end valve capable of operation from-outside of the car and also adapted to cooperate with the train-pipe on the one hand and the hose on the other hand, so as to combine in the one terminal device a coupling and a valve that will also serve as a train-pipe terminal to which the hose may be directlyconnected. One branch of the device is turned downward to engage with the hose and the other branch lies at an angle to the longitudinal line of the car to cooperate with an angular portion of the train-pipe, while there is also in the device a valvewith a stem projecting laterally from the longitudinal line of the car and at a different angle from either of the two coupling branches of the valve.

The device is also one that gives but a small resistance to the flow of the steam from the train-pipe of one. car to that oi' the next one and is simple and cheap to construct.

Referring to the drawings, A, Fig. 1, represents a train-pipe on a car B, located at one side of the car and designed to be connected,

' through the hose-pipes O C', to a corresponding section of train-pipe A on car D. The train-pipe is bent at its outer end, so as to have a terminal section that divergesV diagonally at an easy angle from the longitudinal Vline of the car toward the center of the car and slightly downward, as' shown in Fig. 2, so as to bring it nearer to the center of the car in a position to connect with the hosepipe O.

E is the train-pipe terminal, located at the end of the train-pipe and provided with a Ivalve having its axisat right angles to the longitudinal line of the car, and vforming an extension of the valve-stem is an operating handle F. The terminal is provided with two coupling branches: First, the branch a, which departs from the body of the terminal at an angle aboutmidway between the longitudinal line 'of the car and the axis of the valve. This branch isalso turned slightly upward, as seen in Fig. 2, to form a lineal continuation of the bent end of train-pipe A. Second, there is a branch c', which, as seen in Fig. 2, is turned down nearly at right angles to communicate with the hose C. The former branch is provided with a permanent connection to the train- ALBANY, Naw YORK, Assienon rro CONSOLIDATED New YORK, A oOnroni-iiriou pipe and the latter branch has the usual remov'- Y .able connection with the hose. By this arrangement I produce a single article in which is combined an end valve having its stem substantially at right angles to the longitudinal line of the'car, so as to be operated directly by the handle F, projecting outward in line with the valve-stem, and also a coupler communicating on one'side with the train-pipe A and on the other with the hose-pipe C, the

whole constituting a terminal for the trainpipe suitable for the ready connection thereto or disconnection therefrom ofthe hose.

Moreover, as appears in Fig. 3, the route of the passage through the terminal involves but slight and easy angles presenting little obstruction to the flow of the steam -current from car to car and through the train.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, isA

1. A train-pipe terminal for a car-heating system comprising, first, an end valve having its axis at right angles to the car and, second, two coupling branches, Vone placed at an angle between the axis ofV the valve and the longitudinal line of the oar and the other turned downward at approximately a right angle to the axis of the valve, the former branch being adapted to connect with a diagonal end section of the train-pipe and the latter branch being 'adapted to communicate with a hose-pipe.

2. A train-pipe terminal for a car-heating system comprising, lirst, an end valve having IOO its axis at right angles to the line of the car with an operating-handle F projecting yin line with the axis of the valve and, second, two branches one a coupling branch a at an intermediate angle between the axis of the valve and the longitudinal line of the car and the other a branch a turned downward and provided with a hose-coupling.

3. In a car-heating system the combination with a train-pipe lyingalong one side of the center of the car but turned inward toward the center of the car at its end of a terminal E comprising a combined valve and coupler having the diverging branches n a-nd a communicating respectively with the train-pipe and a coupling-hose, and provided also with an operating-handle F extending laterally be-y yond the edge of the car-platform.

4, A train-pipe terminal for a car-heating system, comprising'a combined end valve and coupler having two'branches, one a diagonal branch adapted to communicate with the trainpipe andthe other a downward branch adapted to communicate with the hose, and having also a projecting valve-handle for operating the valve from the side of the car.

5. In a car-heating system, the combination With a train-pipe lying along one side of the center of a car but turned inwardly so as to terminate n ear the center of the car, a terminal for said train-pipe comprising a combined end valve and coupler having two diverging branches, one communicating with the trainpipe and the other provided with a hose-coupling, a hose communicating at its innner end with the latter branch of the said terminal and at its outer end provided with a coupler adapttherefrom toward the edge of the car-platform.

V`In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand before two subscribing Witnesses this 19th day of January, 1904-.

JAMES F. MOELROY Witnesses:

ERNEST D. JANSEN, WILLIAM A. MoRRrLL, Jr. 

